Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile Galle

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

Gunter Grass

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.

Jonathan Feeney

We believe that Kellogg is the best-executing food company. It stands out for its solid momentum amidst competitors that face pressure in both pricing and volume over the next year.

Al Cárdenas

She can't bunker up for a few days amidst rampant rumors of her leaving the race and not have something dramatic to say. My sense is she's going to opt to stay (in the race) and make a statement that fits into that dramatic category.

Neil Strait

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

Orrin Hatch

I was surprised they did it amidst their merger because ... there are a lot of questions about the merger to begin with, ... We've raised some of them in our hearing.  And we may have to have more hearings, I don't know.

Randeep Hooda

I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

Ignatius of Antioch

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

Harbhajan Singh

It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.

Agnes Repplier

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

Agnes Repplier

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Alan Sugar

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

Charlotte Bronte

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlie Daniels

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

Charlie Chaplin

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Charlie Chaplin

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Charles Dudley Warner

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Ben Okri

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Diane Keaton

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

David Hobson

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Chris Johnson

She really grows on people after they get to know her personality.

Bruce Raynor

unless the labor movement grows to increase workers' standard of living, that has got to be our fundamental purpose. We have to put the resources where the words are.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Albert Schweitzer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Armando Siqueiros

There are things that happen to any young girl. But because she grows up, it doesn't mean she can't be competitive on an international level.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

John Milton

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray / Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still.

David Cook

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

John Aragon

He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.

Josh Duhamel

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

Tom Roy

That is because the spray is a live-form of the flu,